After the girl in white disappeared into the cloth fence, she never appeared again.

From early morning to evening, Ning Que turned his head from time to time to look in the direction of the mountain stream, his neck and eyes began to sour, but he still couldn't see the scenery of white clothes and blue waist again.

He secretly guessed the identity of the girl, but he could only confirm that it was the female disciple of the Mochi Garden of the Great River Country, and he couldn't think of anything else, so he had to pack his bags and return to Dongsheng Village.

During the period when winter began to envelop the wasteland, the situation in Yanbei changed quietly but clearly. The sporadic battles between the Central Plains coalition army and the Left Tent Royal Court added hundreds of cavalry corpses to the wasteland, and also prevented any trade between the two sides.

As Ning Que analyzed, whether it is Xiling Temple or Chang'an City, they do not regard the Left Tent Royal Court as their real enemy, and the Left Tent Royal Court is not a weak person who is so fragile that it will be defeated in one blow, those barbarian cavalry who wander among the winter grass, although they suffered a big loss at the Nangui Wilderness, it does not mean that they are really afraid of the Central Plains people, especially the Yan ** team on the Eastern Front, so they only carried out some superficial rebuke and discussion, and the Central Plains Coalition Army agreed to Zuo Bill's request for peace.

Since the negotiations are to begin, of course, there must be someone who is responsible for unifying ideas and leading the negotiation process, it is naturally impossible for General Xiahou to leave Tuyang City to go to the wasteland to negotiate in person, and it is impossible for Datang to allow the Xiling Temple to preside over this matter.

The tentative attack and defense in the wasteland had nothing to do with Ning Que, and the negotiations that were about to start had nothing to do with him, although the upper echelons of the Yan Army knew that his background was terrible, but he didn't have any military identity after all. In fact, with his current status, it doesn't hurt to negotiate on behalf of the Tang Army, but the strategists in the Great General's Mansion of Tuyang City, as they have done in the past two months, dare to let him go to the wasteland to take risks.

The north wind was howling outside the window, and the room was hot, and Ning Que was concentrating on reading by the dim light at the table.

The captain glanced at him and said: "Three days ago, someone in Tuyang City disguised himself as a caravan and went out of the city, the direction should be the wasteland, although the peace talks are about to start now, but the ban on business has not been lifted, I don't know what these people are anxious about, I always feel that I don't feel like a spy in the barracks." ”

As an imperial secret guard, after knowing Ning Que's identity, the captain only looked at him, and it stands to reason that the dark guard can only report what he knows, not to say any speculation, but thinking of the strange caravan in Tuyang City, he still didn't hold back after all, and said tentatively: "I heard...... General Xiahou is a guest of the Xiling Temple. ”

"You don't have to be tempted here like a girl, what does Your Majesty want to do, I don't know, I came to Yanbei Wasteland on the secret order of Your Majesty to do something, you don't need to know. ”

Ning Que put down the scroll in his hand, looked at him and shook his head and said, "The whole world knows that General Xiahou is a guest of the Xiling Divine Temple, but so what? Sword Saint Liu Bai is also a guest of the Divine Temple, my master is still the great priest of the Divine Temple, and my people of the Great Tang Dynasty also believe in Haotian, is it also a sin to say this?"

Looking at his subordinates who wanted to stop talking, he smiled and waved his hand, and continued: "When can't General Xiahou see the people from the Xiling Temple? Do you have to meet secretly in the Yanbei Wasteland when you are fighting? He is not an idiot, don't think too much, just continue to help me look at Tuyang City." ”

The lieutenant was ordered to go out.

Ning Que looked at the flame of the oil lamp on the table that had become faint again, and his brows slowly furrowed, as he said before, the Tang people worship Haotian, but after all, everyone knows that the empire and the temple are two people, otherwise how could there be the appearance of Haotian's south gate, Xiahou, as a general of the empire, is the guest of the Xiling Temple...... Why did the Emperor tolerate him so much? Why did His Majesty suddenly start to distrust Xiahou after many years? If Xiahou really secretly colluded with the Xiling Temple in a vain attempt to disadvantage the empire, what could he do, and the most important thing was what the Temple could give him?

With the arrival of winter, Yanbei ushered in the first snow, and Dongshengzhai also ushered in a formation division, which held the documents of the Chinese military tent, and said that because of the cold weather, the Chinese military tent was worried that the defensive formations in the border defense line would be damaged, so they sent themselves to inspect and repair.

The number of cultivators in the world is very small, and the Fu Master Formation Master is even rarer, whether it is in the prosperous city or the bitter cold border fortress, such a character is always noble, especially on the battlefield, if there is an excellent formation division, the military defense line will be naturally stable for a few points, so the arrival of this formation division has been warmly welcomed by the generals and ordinary soldiers.

General Dongshengzhai diligently welcomed this formation division into the tent, and was about to slaughter sheep and cook cattle for a good hospitality, but unexpectedly, this formation division waved away the serving soldiers, looked at no one around, and asked with a stern expression: "Mr. Thirteen is there?"

The jet-black waist card doesn't seem to reflect any light, it is dull and dark but has no dirty feeling, it is more like a piece of ink jade soaked in the ink pool of the Great River Country.

The two waist cards slowly approached, and when they were only one line apart, they seemed to have some kind of suction, and they were automatically adsorbed together, and the inconspicuous but actually wonderful secret charms on them were perfectly wedged together.

Ning Que looked at the waist cards that were put together and said curiously: "It turns out that there is still such a use." ”

"The waist cards of the Tianshu Department are all specially made, and even the Xiling Temple is difficult to forge, so as long as you see the waist card, you can confirm the identity of the holder. ”

The formation master from the Zhongjun tent explained a few words to Ning Que, then stood up and bowed, and said respectfully: "Tianshu is a formation master who has seen my lord. ”

Ning Que looked at the gray hair of the formation master, and didn't want to accept this salute, so he hurriedly helped him up and said, "I'm just a supernumerary member of the cardinal department today, and what kind of big ...... is there",

The formation master looked at the jet-black waist card in his hand, his eyes were full of sighs and smiles, and explained: "My lord, your waist card is not something that can be held in the hands of some supernumerary personnel, the authority of this waist card is extremely high, except for the National Teacher and the chief official of the Tianshu Division, even if you walk in the south gate, you will not be moved. ”

Ning Que took the waist card back, held it in the air and looked at it carefully for a long time, but he didn't see anything why, thinking that when he entered the palace that day, he was still quite dissatisfied when he finally gave such a waist card, if this waist card was really as powerful as this person said, he seemed to be wrong to blame His Majesty.

"Even if I don't judge the official position of Tianshu, I am the thirty-fourth generation disciple of Haotian South Gate, you are the descendant of Master Yan Se, and you are my master according to your seniority, do you want me to kneel down and kowtow to you?"

Ning Que smiled and waved his hand: "I know that I am of high rank, but I really didn't expect it to be so high, don't talk much, you came to me today, you must have something important to say."

"The desolate people went south, forcing the tribe of the Left Tent to move south, this matter is not a big deal no matter how you look at it, so when the temple issued an edict, the imperial court has always felt a little strange, even if it is afraid that the remnants of the Demon Sect may rise due to the desolate people, there is no reason to put up such a big battle. ”

"It's okay to have a Guardian Cavalry, it can be interpreted as the Temple wants to show off its strength to the believers in the world, but in addition to Prince Longqing, I heard that the Temple has also sent more powerful people, and many of the spies of the Ruling Division have already infiltrated the wasteland and don't know what they want to do?"

The formation master looked at Ning Que's eyes and said seriously: "The imperial court asked Tianshu to investigate, why did the temple make such a big move, we mobilized a lot of manpower and even used the same ...... in the temple."

Hearing this, Ning Que raised his eyebrows slightly and asked, "Our Heavenly Pivot actually has someone in the Divine Temple?"

The formation master nodded, and explained with a smile: "After all, the south gate and the temple are in the same line, the temple must have hidden people in the south gate, and the south gate can naturally hide people in the temple, and the people at the south gate are naturally the people from our heavenly hub." ”

"Explain clearly enough, please continue. ”

"It took us a month to find out that this matter should be related to the legendary Seven Heavenly Books, but my lord, I'm sorry, we don't have any evidence, we just got a piece of cloth horn. ”

The array master took out a piece of cloth from his sleeve, and from the stitching line, this cloth corner should be the hem of his shirt, and then it was torn by brute force, and there were two dark red and near-ink handwriting on the cloth corner: "Ming Scroll".

Ning Que looked at the two words on the corner of the cloth, his brows furrowed, he stretched out his hand and gently touched the dark red handwriting, and said, "This is the blood book." ”

The formation master looked at him and whispered, "The companions in the temple tried their best to send out this cloth horn, and then there was no news, it is estimated that someone should have found it." ”

Being able to discover such a big secret in a place like Xiling Temple, and still be able to send this secret out, it is conceivable that the spy buried in Xiling by Tianshu has a high status in the temple.

Ning Que frowned and looked at the two blood characters on the corner of the cloth, and said after being silent for a long time: "Just rely on these two words...... Why is it confirmed that it has something to do with the Seven Heavenly Books? If not, wouldn't it be a pity that he died?"

The formation master said: "After seeing these two blood characters on the cloth horn, no one in the Heavenly Pivot Department connected this with the legendary Seven Heavenly Books, until the National Master saw it, and he confirmed that the Ming Scroll was one of the seven Heavenly Books. ”

Ning Que held the cloth horn in his hand, looked up into his eyes, and asked after thinking for a moment, "Then how can we confirm that the temple sent the strong man into the wasteland and has something to do with this matter?"

"Because it is very likely that this book of heaven is in the desolate people. The formation master said.

Ning Que was puzzled and asked, "The Demon Sect is from the Desolate Tribe, why is the Heavenly Book of the Haotian Sect in the Desolate People?"

The formation master looked at him with a complicated expression, and he was very puzzled that this master's personal disciple would not know the most famous history in the cultivation world in the future.

"Your Excellency...... Countless years ago, the desolate people occupied the northern part of the continent, spanning the north and south, known as the strongest country, when the Haotian Temple sent the great priest of light into the wasteland to preach, it was to include the desolate people in the Haotian Divine Radiance. ”

However, no one could have imagined that the great priest of light, who was superb in his teachings and had a high level of morality, would actually fall into a trance and enter a different path in the process of preaching to the desolate people, and create a method of cultivation that was completely different from the righteous path. ”

Ning Que rubbed his head and asked in disbelief, "Could it be that this kind of cultivation method is the Demon Sect's kung fu?"

"No roll"

The founding ancestor of the Demon Sect was actually the Great Priest of Light of the Xiling Temple? Ning Que only knew about this dusty past until now, and couldn't help but be shocked, thinking that everyone was a family when they came and went.

The formation master then recounted: "That Great Divine Priest of Light is very knowledgeable and strict in his teachings, and he is the best at enlightening mortals, and the temple had great expectations for him to enter the wilderness and preach, and even let him bring a book of heaven. And when he founded the Demon Sect and became the immortal enemy of the temple, this heavenly book naturally remained in the wasteland and never appeared in the Central Plains again. ”

"Decades ago, the sect hidden in the Central Plains by the Demon Sect was wiped out by the Central Plains Righteous Path, and even the mysterious Demon Sect Mountain Gate was heard to have been cut into ruins by a senior master with a single sword, but still no one has found the book of heaven. ”

Breaking into the mountain with a single sword and slashing the mountain gate of the Demon Sect into ruins, listening to the deeds of the senior masters, Ning Que seemed to see those pictures in the past, his mood was agitated, and his skin was slightly numb, but he didn't know why, he faintly felt that the senior master should have something to do with him, at least with the academy.

"Who is that senior?"

"I don't know. ”

“”

"Since there is no Heavenly Book in the Demon Sect Mountain Gate, there is only one possibility, that is, as early as a thousand years ago...... was only taken to the cold region of the extreme north by the desolate people. The extreme northern cold region is bitter and far away, and the desolate people are strong, even the great cultivators of the realm of knowing fate do not dare to set foot lightly, so this conjecture has always remained in the conjecture. But now that the desolate people have moved south from the extreme northern cold region, of course the temple wants to find the heavenly book back.

Hearing this, Ning Que finally understood why the imperial court made such a judgment about the intentions of the temple. He also believed that in order to regain a certain volume of the Book of Heaven that had been lost for thousands of years, the Xiling Temple would definitely not hesitate to set off a bloody war, not hesitate to let tens of millions of people shed blood and sacrifice for it, and even let Prince Longqing or even more important people take risks.

From the emperor to the peddler, everyone in the world knows that the Seven Volumes of Heavenly Books are the most sacred classics of the Haotian Daomen...... but almost everyone doesn't know what the Seven Volumes of Heavenly Books are and what is recorded on them.

There are many legends about the seven volumes of the Book of Heaven, some people say that the Book of Heaven records the will of Haotian to the world, some people say that the Book of Heaven records the prophecy of world affairs, some people say that the Book of Heaven itself is a supreme magic weapon that condenses the power of heaven and earth, and there are rumors that mortals can practice at a glance at the Book of Heaven, practitioners can break through the realm with a glance at the Book of Heaven, the ghosts in the underworld can be purified and reborn with a glance at the Book of Heaven, and the saints can become immortals with a glance at the Book of Heaven......

Ning Que had heard of these legends, but at that time, his life was too far away from such things as the Seven Heavenly Books, and he didn't care at all, and even some didn't believe that there was a Heavenly Book, and today he finally knew that the Seven Heavenly Books were true, but he still didn't believe those rumors, and felt that the Seven Heavenly Books were more likely to be the secret of the Haotian Dao Gate, some kind of earth-shattering peerless cultivation method.

At this time, he did not know that his name had appeared in the first volume of the Book of Heaven.

"The Book of Heaven is very important, everyone wants it, but what does it have to do with me?"

After all, he is a disciple on the second floor of the academy, although the strength realm is still a little too weak now, but it is more or less contaminated with the infatuation and pride of the senior brothers and sisters in the back mountain, Ning Que was not shocked by the name of the Seven Heavenly Books for too long, and soon came to his senses, looked at the formation master and asked.

The formation master glanced out the window, leaned into his ear and whispered: "The national teacher asked me to bring you a message, it is difficult to find the Book of Heaven in the wasteland, ordinary cultivators do not have any strength in front of the temple at all, and he and Master Yan Se are still the status of the great priest of the temple after all, it is inconvenient to make a move, and you happen to be in Yanbei, so ......"

"So this matter fell on my head?" Ning Que asked as he stared at him.

"That's right, even this piece of cloth with blood characters written on it was personally ordered by the National Teacher, and he sent someone from Chang'an City to bring it to you to see. ”

Ning Que stared at the snowflakes floating outside the window, and was silent for a long time, and suddenly he opened his mouth and asked, "What does the Book of Heaven look like?"

The Falcon replied respectfully, "I don't know. ”

Ning Que's gaze fell on his face and continued to ask, "Size?"

The formation master replied honestly, "I don't know. ”

Ning Que's eyebrows twitched slightly, forcibly suppressed his feelings, and then asked, "What volume did the temple lose?"

The formation master shook his head and said, "I still don't know. ”

Then he pointed to the corner of the cloth that Ning Que was holding in his palm, and said, "It should be the Ming Scroll." ”

Ning Que took the corner of the cloth and looked at it twice, frowned and asked, "Mingjuan...... What volume is it?"

The formation master coughed twice, looked at him and said cautiously: "I said it before, but I don't know about it. ”

Ning Que said angrily: "I don't know anything, let me find it!"

The formation master looked at him with an innocent expression, and said, "I heard that even the Divine Temple is not qualified to enshrine the Seven Heavenly Books, and the Heavenly Books come from an unknowable land, how can an ordinary person like Beizhi know about it?"

Hearing the words "Unknowable Land", Ning Que's brows furrowed a little deeper, he remembered the truth of Chen Pipi's life experience that had revealed half of his fat face, and remembered the few words he occasionally heard in the academy, and felt that this matter was really a little troublesome.

"My lord, you are the future national teacher of my Tang Dynasty, and you are the personal disciple of the master, you practice every day in the mountain behind the academy, and the things you can touch are far higher than the humble position countless floors, you should know better what the book of heaven looks like. ”

Ning Que was stunned, thinking that he was busy practicing archery all day long in the mountain behind the academy, so he didn't care about the top legends in the cultivation world at all, and he didn't have the opportunity to ask the senior brothers and sisters about the story, could this kind of thing also be sued to you?

After the formation master left, Ning Que sat by the window and watched the wind and snow coming from the direction of the wasteland, thinking for a long time.

It wasn't until today that he found out that after entering the second floor of the academy, he still underestimated himself, and he didn't expect that even a legendary-level item like the Seven Heavenly Books would begin to contact him.

Suddenly, he remembered that the Great General's Mansion of Tuyang City had sent someone to disguise himself as a caravan to enter the wasteland, and his eyebrows slowly frowned, could it be that Xiahou also wanted to get the scroll of the Heavenly Book that had been lost for a thousand years? If this was the case, then it seemed that no matter how difficult it was, he had to plan well for what happened after entering the wasteland.